Get access to physical key events

[Woyten]

I would like to turn microwave into an app that runs both on desktop and web environments.

To me it seems that iced is the most promising candidate to achieve this goal. My first experience with it was very pleasant and everything worked out-of-the box.

However, to fully migrate microwave to iced I need to access the physical location / scan code of keyboard events. It seems that this is not possible at the moment.

[dhardy]

Are you aware of rust-windowing/winit#1806 ?

Currently I believe it is possible to get scancodes, though these are platform-specific and not really much use aside from matching the same key again (though IIUC they may not be unique on Windows). Physical key location is planned but I'm not sure at the moment exactly how that will look (probably equivalent key on US-ASCII layout, with None for extra media keys).

[Woyten]

Thanks for sharing your ideas. Is there an idiomatic way to register an onkeydown event listener on some canvas component which feeds OnKeyDownEvents into the main loop of iced?

[hecrj]

@Woyten You can listen to keyboard events in canvas::Program::update and return a Message for the Application when necessary.